• 1 or 2 hours past midnight

    I may stay up to 1:60 am (as advertised last night) to watch [W:Very Annie Mary] on [W:Film4] tonight…

    Film Four trailer

    but I am more of a [W:Johnny Guitar Watson] – Three Hours Past Midnight kind of chap….


  • Spell catcher: At last the Snow Leopard update

    Apple’s Snow Leopard update of Mac OS X was first announced on 9th June 2008. It was released on 28th August 2009. Some companies took a day or two to release an update to their own software so it was better integrated with the new OS. Some took a week or so. Rainmaker released an update to their excellent Spell Catcher X software on 13th January 2010. Is this a record?

    All I need now, for a complete set, is FinderPop but I can wait for a full recovery first.


  • Thames Water – Worst website of the day

    If you are a customer of Thames Water you can pay your bill online. If you make a mistake filling in the form it will be rejected but it will not tell you what the mistake is. Once you manage to fight your way through the form filling and make your payment you are presented with a page…
    Thames Water website page

    Hmmm! “Thank you for contacting us”. I was not trying to contact you I was trying to pay you. Did you get my payment? Who knows?

    “You will shortly receive an automated email response”. I am still waiting. But as I did not give you an email address I will be very impressed if one arrives.

    If only there were some way I could inform you about the sheer crapiness of your site…. Wait – there’s a survey to share my views…
    Thames Water survey

    Oh dear!


  • Building a snow bear

    Martine and the girls build a bear. If you have the snow it has to be done….

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